Read the excerpt from "Money to Us Is of No Value."
We know that these settlers are poor, or they would never have ventured to live in a country which has been in continual trouble ever since they crossed the Ohio. Divide, therefore, this large sum of money which you have offered us among these people: give to each also a proportion of what you say you would give to us annually (over and above this very large sum of money), and we are persuaded they would most readily accept of it in lieu of the lands you sold them. If you add, also, the great sums you must expend in raising and paying armies with a view to force us to yield you our country, you will certainly have more than sufficient for the purpose of repaying these settlers for all their labor and their improvements.
Which quotation explains why the tribes suggested the US government spend the money on its own citizens?
"We know that these settlers are poor . . ."
"Divide, therefore, this large sum of money . . ."
“. . . give to each also a proportion of what you say you would give to us annually . . .”
“. . . they would most readily accept of it in lieu of the lands you sold them."